The only part that does not equate is not providing you with an address to ship it to which would at least see him being able to acquire your machine. The only reason that would come to mind is he got into some hot water for other bad deals at about the time yours would have shipped and it would have added to his number of counts of commiting similar fraudulant activities should the authorities now be on him and watching his Ebay transactions.

By the way Sparky the address you posted is in Calgary.

http://tinyurl.com/9tzuqx

Look at the host information on the bottom left....

Indeed, that's where things came to a crawl.  I was running around getting shipping quotes to terminals in Calgary, and If I remember correctly, he suggested using Manitoulin Transport to ship it to a "terminal" or loading dock since he said he dealt with some people at Manitoulin regularly...I now remember insisting that
he provide me with a home phone number so that the shipper could contact him (standard procedure I thought) and then he became sketchy, not giving me his home phone number, not giving me the name of a contact at
Manitoulin...so, looking back, I guess "that" was the time  where he hoped I would just ship the Phantom to the docks of Manitoulin, then he'd simply never pay me the rest....god, I almost shipped it in good faith!

Then I stopped the press and waited for the rest of the payment for the machine, which never came.

Craig

Thanks to everyone's help so far (Tartagliag for helping me find his IP address, Sparky for checking his records of said address and banning.. and everyone else for their suggestions)

I've taken all collected info (and there is a LOT of it) and passed it on to all others who've sent money (and there are others), and we've all filed reports at our respective police departments.  

Now we wait...

This guy's been playing with fire for a very long time, it's about time he got burned.

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Now we wait...

This guy's been playing with fire for a very long time, it's about time he got burned.

Hang in there... The wheels of justice tend to turn very slowly at times. I think most of the experienced nefarious folk take this into account and plan on most victims giving up.

Also, a couple of months ago I listed my Karate Champ on Ebay, and it "sold" to a UserID from Alberta that I didn't recognize....IRRC...there were little, if any feedbacks with that winning bidder, which raised a flag naturally.

After it ended,I Contacted the buyer with the usual "congrats on winning the auction, please send your method of payment and shipping address" ......no response....then a week later I sent another....no response....I tried to file a "no payment" later but it was too early still.  I can't remember if I ever filed a no-pay, my dad died soon after, then I quit working as a tech, hence my "low profile" I guess.

I'll stick around to see if I can be some sort of help with this. I still have an outstanding invoice for Mr. Jebsen here, or Shelby, or Will, or whomever he is.

Hopefully you contacted John Guigon of the Calgary Police department.  Ivo's phone number when he scammed me back in Sept '03 was 403-274-7557 also a pay phone 403-245-9845.  I believe he used his mother/wife? Mirna Jebsens bank account at Scotia Bank.  I had a home address for him at 2619 14 St SW and Mirna at 20 Bergen Crescent NW.  If someone wants to go there and extract $900.15  Canadian plus interest from him I would be grateful.  I would  rather have my pound of flesh though.

I called the Calgary PD already, unfortunately Constable Guigon is no longer with their department.. also, because it's outside my own province, I had to file a report locally first.  Thanks for the info though, I'll follow that up

Cheers

- Brock

machine.slave you may be interested in this thread on RGP.

http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.pinball/browse_thread/thread/d2d3364507cbd577?hl=en#

heh.. well, that's me.  

But thank you

What I frankly don't understand is

1- why does this guy keep screwing people over and not end up in jail

and

2- why no one has just gone and kicked his a**???

I know I will get in trouble for saying this, but I am the "eye-for-an-eye" type. In college, I had a guy rip me off for 80$... he was supposed to get me Pink Floyd tickets. He didn't and proceeded to tell me to fawk off.

... I proceeded to remove the Momo magwheels off his Acura Integra at 2am and sold them to a guy for... you guessed it... 80$. Well, actually, I sold them for 100$... I did buy 4 blocks for 20$ to put the car on. I did have to at least cover my costs.

Sheesh... I know guys that have broken legs for a debt of less than 1000$... this guy is merely playing honest people. One day, he will screw the wrong type of guy. Hopefully sooner than later.

5 people have come forward so far... and those are only the people who've seen my APB's on Craigslist.  Who knows how many else are out there.

A recent offering to another unsuspecting victim... (thankfully they've backed out)

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From: autodlr89@yahoo.com
hi.i might have what you need.i have williams high speed and williams the getaway,which is high speed part 2.i might also be willing to part with my stern nascar pinball,depending on the offer.do you have a number and best time to call?i don't want to call and have hubby around to spoil the surprise.tell me the best time to call.thanks.

I'm in Calgary and haven't met this person yet.  This person may have emailed me before but email addresses are a dime a dozen like calling cards.  They hide their tracks and have some mental disorder to keep doing the same thing.  But honestly though, I have no motivation to deal with someone who I suspect may be a fraud.  Why would I want to have some wacko come to my house to see my stuff if I think there's a chance that this person is a fraud?  Just not worth it.  I hope machine.slave gets resolution just like I hope dino7c gets resolution with Mr Andersen.